Cleartrip.com all set to offer International booking

New Delhi, Oct 30: Online travel portal 'cleartrip.com' is all set to start international booking within a month as it expects to achieve a growth target of 300 per cent in the next fiscal.

"We will offer international bookings on the site from the next month," a company official said.

The portal, launched in July 2005, has an average booking of Rs 7,000 per customer. "In the last fiscal, we dealt with three lakh customers and now we expect to increase this number considerably," cleartrip.com CEO Sandeep Murthy said.

To expand its business, it has tied-up with retail outlets of Future Group and Big Bazaar. It is going to add three more locations within a month, he said.

The portal offers combo bookings of air travel and hotels through its site. "In this segment, we expect our revenue to grow 30 per cent," Murthy added.

Currently, the company offers booking facilities for about 1,500 hotels through direct and indirect relations. It has tie-ups with 10 hotels of four- and five-star category.

In the last fiscal, the company invested eight million dollar for its business expansion plans.